Cookbook for the Tropics Cookbook, Kochbuch für die Tropen, used by Hedwig Bauer Rosenthal
Archival History
The cookbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Ronald Glass and Marion Glass Hirschmann, the children of Inge Glass.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Ronald Glass and Marion Hirschmann
Scope and Content
Cookbook for the Tropics bought by Hedwig Rosenthal in preparation for her family’s immigration to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1930s. The book was written by Antonie Brandeis and published in Berlin, Germany, by Dietrich Reimer, in 1930. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents and Hebrew and German prayer books: a machzor, a siddur, and three haggadot.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
German-language cookbook with 393 pages, and is presumed to be a third edition. The owner's name is inscribed on the inner front cover.
front cover, inside cover, handwritten : Hedwig Rosenthal
Corporate Bodies
- Wizo
Subjects
- Limburg (Germany : Landkreis)
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Jewish refugees.
- Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object